Meta allies with Microsoft and launches Llama 2, its new free AI that competes with GPT-4

Meta jumps right into the AI ​​business by opening up its new AI, Llama 2, to just about everyone.

Goal has submitted, along with Microsofthis new generative language model Llama 2, which will compete with GPT-4. Its main novelty, in addition to the fact that it is much smarter than Llama, is that will be open source and free for researchers and companies.

With this movement, Meta launches into direct competition with the language models OpenAI artificial intelligence, Google Bard, etc., which also have free versions.

Although Goal competes directly with Open AIcompany in which Microsoft has invested more than 10,000 million dollars and is a preferred partner, Microsoft has also signed an alliance with Mark Zuckerberg’s companyto become a preferred customer, according to the press release of Goal.

Llama 2, the new free AI from Meta

flame 2 is Meta’s new generative language model, which is equated to GPT-4. With this language you can create customized tools that fulfill different tasksas is the case with ChatGPT or the artificial intelligence of Microsoft Bing.

As we said, Meta offers Llama 2 for free to researchers and companiesbecause he believes that this way it can be made more secure: “Open access means a generation of developers and researchers can stress test them, quickly identifying and resolving issues, as a community“.

Where is the business then? Meta will create its own top-level applicationsin the same way that OpenAI has developed ChatGPT, and that is where part of the profits will come from.

According to Mark Zuckeberg’s company, Llama 2 is an open source generative artificial intelligencewho has been trained with 40% more data than Callall of “public and open sources“.

The models of flame 2 have trained with 2 billion tokens, and they have twice the length of context that Call 1. The perfected models of him have been trained with more than a million human annotations.

As we have commented, Microsoft has become Meta’s preferred partner, to use Llama 2. It will install it on its Azure servers in the cloud, offering it as another tool to its clients. Llama 2 can also run locally on Windows, so it could be used in a multitude of applications.

The new Meta AI it will also be available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Hugging Face, and other cloud platforms. If you are a researcher or a company, you can download Llama 2 right now from their website.

Offering free Call 2, and allying with Microsoft, Meta recovers lost ground and it becomes a new contender, on a par with OpenAI and Google. Although he still has everything to prove.